A reminder that a16-part virtual tour of George McWhorter's Memorial Collectionat the University of Louisville is now featured in ERBzin-estarting with issue No.
402 at:http://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0402.htmlJoin us each week over the next month as the tour unfolds.

Posts to Jim Thompson's ERB listserver:
erbcof-l@APSU01.APSU.EDU

June 5, 2000Dear Bill & Sue-On:Thanks for the fifteen web sites on the ERB Memorial Scrapbook
a la Hillman. All the pictures and captions were superb! FOR MY NEXT
BOUT WITH the computer, I will check out the ECOF site photos. I
am impressed with your digital camera capabilities. Keep up the good work.
Cheers! Tublat

June 8, 2000I watched your web links on May 31 and again on June l,
and they are GREAT! I even moused-in the captions and thought they
were fine. You are a multitude!! Cheers! TUBLAT

2.
EB WRITES HOME ~ June 12, 1944(A sample of some of the treasures we found during our Louisville
tour)

June 22 1944

Master Danton BurroughsTarzana, California.

Dear Danton:

Just two years ago today your brother arrived when our worlddid not look too bright. But you come in on the crest
of avictorious wave that is carrying us and our allies to success-ful ending of World War II much sooner than we had expected.

If your generation shows more intelligence than past generat-ions, perhaps there will be no more wars. But that is
almosttoo much to expect. However, there is a chance.
You have beenborn into the greatest nation the world has ever known.
Keep itgreat. Keep it strong. If you do, no country will
dare to go towar if we say no.

Put this letter away and read it June 21st 1965. You will
be ofage then. See then if the politicians have kept your country
greatand strong. If they haven't, do something about it.
If I'm aroundI'll remind you.

Good luck my boy,
Your Grandfather,

(sig) Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN

January 19, 1988

Dear Mr. McWhorter:

Thanks very much for sending along the letter that you had in
your collection from Edgar Rice Burroughs. And, you're right, it
still has relevance today. It reminds me of the responsibility that
we have to make this word a safer and better place for generations to come.
He had a lucky grandson, didn't he, to have much wisdom imparted at such
an early age. I hope that, looking on, Edgar Rice Burroughs knows
that this country is still keeping strong and that the generation coming
*** will keep the spirit that he conveyed ***.

A belated
Honourable Mention Major Award goes out to Ghak, the hairy
Pellucidarianwho tracked down another JoN camera in our
Find the Jekkak's Camera Contest. He has sent in a photo to verify the find ~ captured at the Hachland
Hall fireplace in Clarksville, TN. Kudos, Ghak!

Ellery Queen's Mystery MagazineBritish edition no. 140, September 1964
Tarzan Jungle Detective by Edgar Rice Burroughs
plus
An over-sized ERB magazine that I picked up on a newstand during one
of our performing tours in England in the late '70s

9.
LETTERS...
WE GET LETTERS...

Hi BillGreat pictures Bill, we as fans of ERB have longed for
these pictures, you have done a great brilliant job, keep it up there are
many out here who love his work and the many artists who have worked to
bring his dreams from the page.

I have been a fan since about 1985, when one grey dull
day I was pacing out my boredom when my eyes happened to glance at a small
pile of second books that my mother had mailed to me. Not really in the
right mood I thought I would have another look at the books. I discovered
this worn and rather tatty copy of "Gods of Mars" published by the English
Library. I suddenly realised after the first few pages, that I had been
transported to another wonderful world full of adventure, fighting warriors,
alien animals and beautiful naked ladies....what more could you ask for
...I was hooked. The Martian novels are my first love.For some years now I have been trying to collect the
artwork on the DELL books by I think?, Michael Whealen?? I would love to
know where I could find them, I have tried his web page but he has 2 of
the covers.

Number 13 hopes to get up ALL of his Public
Domain stories at some time in the future. What sets some of these texts
apart from the other ones up on the Internet (such as Project Gutenberg),
is that they are the COMPLETE unedited, uncensored, version. For instance,
Gutenberg. uses the Ballantine censored version for their text (and all
of the others who have posted the text are using that one) while Jerry's
follows the original book version.

11.
ANOTHER
IN OUR SERIES OF ERB OBITUARIES

E. R. BURROUGHS, 74, CREATED TARZANAuthor of Series Dealing with Apeman's Adventures
is Dead35,000,000 Books SoldThe New York Times ~ Page: 21 ~ Monday, March 20, 1950

LOS ANGELES: March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs,
the novelist, who created the apeman "Tarzan," famed in books and films,
died this morning at his Encino home of a heart ailment. His age was 74.
The author, who had been ill for three months, had eaten an early breakfast,
and was lying in bed reading when death came. His daughter, Joan, and his
two sons, John and Hulbert, were at the bedside. Mr. Burroughs had been
a shut-in for several years. Confined to a wheelchair by a series of heart
attacks, he still derived great pleasure from creating the action necessary
for the Tarzan books. Two cities were named in honor of his hero, Tarzan,
Calif. and Tarzan, Tex. The novelist, who began investing in California
real estate from the profits of his first books, developed great tracts
of land in the San Fernando Valley and sold them at prices that helped
swell his fortune. After Pearl Harbor Mr. Burroughs became a war correspondent
and roved the Pacific islands writing battle dispatches. He returned to
his home after being invalided out of the Pacific. Later he purchased a
small home in Encino, where he lived quietly. Mr. Burroughs left approximately
fifteen incompleted Tarzan tales and other adventure stories. Besides his
three children, five grandchildren survive. A private funeral has been
set tentatively for Tuesday.

140,000,000 SAW EACH FILMCreator of the most widely known jungle character of
this century, Mr. Burroughs never considered himself in a class with Kipling.
That each Tarzan movie was seen by 140,000,000 persons or that his books
had sold 35,000,000 copies did not alter his conviction that his success
was due to an uncanny faculty for avoiding intellectual precincts. In fifty-six
languages vast multitudes read of the tribulations of the Englishman reared
by apes in Africa. Two hundred newspapers, forty of them foreign, told,
with pictures, how Tarzan fought along-side his animal friends against
cruelty and avarice. On the radio and in children's games the loud but
limited vocabulary of the jungle monarch was in constant rehearsal. A rugged
man, Mr. Burroughs read little and was goaded into writing at the age of
35 only by failure at everything else he had tried. "Master of the slaughter-house
branch of fiction" he was called by Alva Johnston, who added that in Mr.
Burroughs' out-put was discernible "a trace of Homer, but not any Noel
Coward." Starting with publication of Tarzan of the Apes in 1914, Mr. Burroughs
stuck fairly close to the plots with which he had lulled himself to sleep
during the days when he was unable to succeed as a clerk, accountant, salesman,
railroad detective, cow handler, gold dredger or advertising man.

WROTE FIRST NOVEL IN 1912The first time he decided to write was after reading
a pulp magazine in connection with advertising work. He thought he could
do as well as the contributors and, in 1912, he turned out a novel called
Under the Moon of Mars which he sold for $400. For this work he used the
name "Normal Bean," because he had already decided that his was the average
mind in search ofaverage readers. Geography meant no more to Mr. Burroughs
than did grammar. He had no interest in research and never set foot in
Africa. Much more time was spent figuring out appealing names for his elephant,
cheetah or ape than on checking the flora of their habitat. Until he began
writing Mr. Burroughs showed no literary interest. Born in Chicago on Sept
1, 1875, the son of a successful distiller and manufacturer, he attended
private schools, where he did poorly. His formal education was completed
at military academy. Many years later, after ten movie actors had played
Tarzan, Mr. Burroughs was mystified to hear that Kipling's Jungle Book
had been an inspiration for his works. He replied that the source of his
central character had been the tale of the weaning of Romulus and Remus
by a she-wolf. By that time Mr. Burroughs had written nearly fifty books
and was dictating one novel a year instead of his earlier rate of two books
a year. At his best, the author had written more than 9,000 words a day.

[The Associated Press reports from Hollywood that the
Tarzan movies will go on. The film producer, Sol Lesser, said he recently
negotiated a contract with Mr. Burroughs for fifteen pictures to be produced
over the next ten years.]